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THE INTELLECTUAL AND HIS PEOPLE: STAGING THE PEOPLE VOLUME 2
By JACQUES RANCIERE
PUBLISHED: 21 JUNE 2012
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RANCIERE’s writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK
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Following the previous volume of essays by JACQUES RANCIERE from the 1970s, STAGING
THE PEOPLE: THE PROLETARIAN AND HIS DOUBLE, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. THE INTELECTUAL AND HIS PEOPLE engages in an incisive and original way with current political
and cultural issues, including the “discovery” of totalitarianism by the “new philosophers,” the relationship of Sartre and Foucault to popular struggles, nostalgia for the ebbing world of the factory, the slippage of the artistic avant-garde into defending
corporate privilege, and the ambiguous sociological critique of Pierre Bourdieu. As ever, RANCIERE challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.
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FUTHER PRAISE FOR JACQUES RANCIERE:
“Forceful…persuasive…surprising…penetrating” – GUARDIAN
“In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, RANCIERE shows a way out of the malaise.”
LIAM GILLICK
“An heir to Foucault” – ALAIN BADIOU
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JACQUES RANCIERE
is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include
THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS,
ON THE SHORES OF POLITICS, SHORT VOYAGES TO THE LAND OF THE PEOPLE,
THE NIGHTS OF LABOR,
STAGING THE PEOPLE, AND THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR.
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ISBN: 9781844678600 / US$29.95
/ £19.99 184 pages
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